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The Menlo Park City Council wants to appoint Interim City Manager Starla Jerome-Robinson to the position permanently, the city announced late this afternoon (Feb. 21). The council is expected to formalize the appointment at its Feb. 26 meeting.

Police have been stopping people riding Facebook bikes, questioning them, and in some instances, arresting them and confiscating the bikes if they find that the cyclists stopped don't work for the giant social media company.

Firefighters 'knock down' Los Trancos Woods structure fire this evening
Firefighters have "knocked down" a single-story guest house fire at 20 Ciervos Road in Los Trancos Woods, an unincorporated community in the hills south of and above Portola Valley, that had been burning since around 5:30 this afternoon, Fire Chief Dan Ghiorso of the Woodside Fire Protection District said less than an hour later. Thursday, 6:46 PM

Plea deal in attempted kidnapping
Two Menlo Park men pleaded guilty after they reportedly grabbed a woman leaving a downtown Mountain View nightclub last year, brandished guns when people tried to intervene, and fired two rounds out of a vehicle as they drove away.Thursday, 3:09 PM

Middlefield Road office building gets go-ahead
A small office building proposed for the high-traffic area near the intersection of Middlefield and Willow roads in Menlo Park has been cleared to move forward after the City Council denied an appeal of an earlier approval of the project. Thursday, 8:48 AM | 3 comments

Should police protect Facebook's bikes?
Local law enforcement officials have been stopping people riding Facebook bikes, questioning them, and in some instances, arresting them and confiscating the bikes if they find that the cyclists stopped don't work for the giant social media company. Tuesday, 7:00 PM | 12 comments

Progress on the Bay Trail
Look at the plans for the Bay Trail and it's easy for a cynic to laugh it off as a pipe dream -- 500 continuous miles of trails cutting through 47 cities and nine counties in the Bay Area? Tuesday, 8:33 AM | 4 comments

Newsom scales back high-speed rail plans
California's decadelong dream of building a high-speed rail system between San Francisco and Los Angeles hit a dead end in Sacramento on Feb. 12, with Gov. Gavin Newsom declaring his plan to significantly scale back the hugely ambitious but deeply flawed project. (An expanded version of an earlier story.) Tuesday, 6:48 PM | 24 comments